Kitchen Under Roof

The contractors spent a long day yesterday tearing off the old roof and getting the new one up. Just in time! It rained quite a bit overnight.

Exterior and interior views of new roof:

 

The mystery of the old beam was also solved. It was hollow!

This discovery was only the latest in a long line of things in this house that have made contractors shake their heads in disbelief. In addition to this beam, which would have collapsed someday, they found:

  • ceiling joists that weren’t connected to anything, causing a sag in one part of the roof
  • in-wall spliced electrical wires without a junction box
  • multiple open junction boxes, one filled with dry-wall mud
  • beer cans and Christmas ornaments discarded in the walls
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